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  "one of the conversations we're going to have to have as a society … If your house has already appreciated by 50% from the time you bought it, do you really need it to soar to 100% or 400%?" https://www.npr.org/2026/07/30/nx-s1-5910711/renter-owner-wealth-gap

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  “A recall would not only be costly — it would indelibly link Taylor Farms to the phrase ‘explosive diarrhea‘ in the minds of American consumers” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-21/as-parasite-spawned-chaos-taylor-farms-slow-walked-its-response?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NDgzMTg2MiwiZXhwIjoxNzg1NDM2NjYyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSUJWUTVUOU5KTFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGOUU0RDg4NjE3MkM0Nzc3QUVFMDk3NTdCODRDQTl...

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  Happy “Beard” release day to all who celebrate. I'm going to give it a week to see if it gets posted for sale on Bandcamp later like “Broken Hearts Club” did https://www.syds.world/music

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  “Sender spends two minutes; ten people downstream lose fifteen each–if they read the whole thing at all” https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/07/08/2130?utm_content=atom

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  “The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave tears across the country.” https://www.theverge.com/policy/961449/white-house-mamdani-heatwave-deletion

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  “Few places in the nation have been transformed so completely, so quickly. Since 2000, retail giants and developers have erected more than 146 million square feet of warehouse space in the Chicago metropolitan area, equivalent in size to roughly 1,400 Home Depot stores” https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/20000-trucks-a-day-life-near-a-booming-warehouse-hub/

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  Why is Jared Polis so horrible? https://www.npr.org/2026/05/15/nx-s1-5690286/tina-peters-polis-commutation-trump

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  Repossessing jets https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/16/spirit-airlines-airplanes.html

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  Single data point — Getting near time to order some more coffee. Same variety and size was $16/bag a month after Trump's Inauguration, and it's $20/bag this morning.

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  “The public spoke, the Forest Service ignored them… When one unelected bureaucrat can relinquish public access to hundreds of thousands of acres of public land and we don’t get a say in it? That’s a crisis.” https://www.hcn.org/articles/the-billionaires-club-at-the-center-of-americas-public-lands-fight/

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  “Gar in Illinois” https://outdoor.wildlifeillinois.org/articles/gar-in-illinois-the-misunderstood-native-dinosaur-fish

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  “A tale of two wormwoods” https://chicagoreader.com/food/food-drink-feature/absinthe-malort-wormwood-spirits-history/

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  Bats and the bond market https://theconversation.com/how-much-is-a-bat-worth-protecting-these-tiny-insect-eaters-isnt-just-good-for-farms-their-deaths-cost-taxpayers-and-the-wider-economy-282014

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  “From a billionaire’s perspective, a US Senate seat can be tantalizingly cheap. In 2022, Peter Thiel bought one for his former employee JD Vance with $15 million…This year, a handful of cryptocurrency billionaires may be on the verge of helping to secure a US Senate seat in Alabama for even less” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/crypto-alabama-senate-coinbase-ripple-andreessen/

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  “total wife - February 20, 2026” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=motrvnYqjJo

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  “Legislation to repeal or replace it would arguably be easier to enact that some blatantly partisan Court-packing scheme or a ban on partisan gerrymandering that might not pass judicial muster.” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/this-big-idea-could-fix-americas-gerrymandering-madness.html

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  “Even with the improvements, it’s striking that coal appears to be the only power source that actively reduces the productivity of what’s shaping up to be its primary competitor” https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/solar-power-production-undercut-by-coal-pollution/

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  “Empty nesters are sitting on America's family-size homes.” https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/boomers-millennials-kids-homes

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  Sans context, the phrase “fully Byrd compliant” is hilarious and confusing https://www.notus.org/whitehouse/senate-parliamentarian-rejects-trumps-ballroom-funding

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  Oxygen-free bird eyes https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/

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  Guess the bike ride is over

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  “The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown could cause the US to potentially lose up to $479bn in lost tax revenue over the the next 10 years, with enforcement deterring undocumented workers from filing their taxes this year, according to tax experts.” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/18/trump-immigration-crackdown-lost-taxes-ice

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  “It’s like the emergency room, we are getting them when they’re on their last heartbeat and we bring’em back to life” https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-cable-cars-22244954.php

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  “The court filing did not mention terms of any potential deal.” https://apnews.com/article/trump-lawsuit-irs-leak-3729de38770b558be01712a143437bf8

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  January 6th Welfare Queens https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/18/trump-irs-lawsuit-settlement-00925801

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  Good enough for Utah but not Illinois, I guess https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/balcony-solar-bill-dies-illinois

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  “Balcony solar bill gains momentum in Illinois” https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/balcony-solar-bill-gains-momentum-illinois

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  “AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence” https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/